Democracy in the Making: How Activist Groups Form (Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics)
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A comprehensive discussion of Latin American politics and the best point of entry to the literature. Offers overviews of academic debates on political institutions, economic development, social policy, civil society, interest groups, social movements, and international relations. It includes chapters about how the study of Latin American politics has influenced research methods in comparative politics. Quality of Democracy in Latin America.
A useful edited volume that evaluates the quality of democracy in terms of five dimensions: The book opens with two theoretical chapters about how to measure the quality of democracy, then presents country-specific chapters for Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Colombia, and Venezuela, and concludes with a discussion by the editors on the general trends in the region.
Mainwaring, Scott, and Christopher Welna, eds.
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Democratic Accountability in Latin America. Oxford University Press, This volume addresses nonelectoral forms of accountability as a determinant of the quality of democracy and citizen satisfaction.
The contributors develop, in detail, the concept of accountability and then analyze how the interaction between different institutions—elections, checks and balances, and oversight agencies—and civil society organizations affect democratic accountability. Politics and Reform in Latin American Countries. Inter-American Development Bank, This report focused on the effects of institutional features on democratic performance, in particular electoral rules and institutional design, parties and party systems, and popular participation and public opinion.
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The authors argue that more democratic and efficient institutions can, over time, mitigate the negative effects of antidemocratic factors related to political culture, socioeconomic development, or international pressures. Democracy in Latin America: United Nations Development Programme, This UNDP report was an agenda-setting document for the evaluation of democratic performance. Users without a subscription are not able to see the full content on this page.
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Karen Celis, Johanna Kantola, Georgina Waylen, and S. Laurel Weldon
Sign in with your library card. Related Articles about About Related Articles close popup. Export Citations Print Email Share. General Overviews Since the early s, academic and nonacademic publications have highlighted a puzzling aspect of Latin American democracy: With the worldwide wave of democratization, scholars interested in the preservation of the new democracies dusted off old theories of regime maintenance. While commonly sharing the assumption that democracy requires democrats, researchers proceeded in different directions, depending on their image of the ideal democrat.
Today, we know a great deal about who supports democracy, and why. However, the state of our knowledge is incomplete at the point where it matters the most.
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As might be expected in any emerging area of research, different sets of scholars based their research instruments on contrasting understandings of what it means to be a democrat, and how democrats are best identified and measured. More importantly, they proceeded from differing understandings and underspecified theories as to why democrats are important, how many are needed, and how they actually affect the level and stability of democracy.
Thus, while the intuition that democracy requires democrats is strong, the actual state of the evidence is still mixed, at best. Access to the complete content on Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics requires a subscription or purchase.
Sign in with your library card. Joseph 14 March Historically speaking, all political communities of the modern type owe their existence to successful warfare. Most importantly, the particularities of Latin American democracies have problematized our definitions of democracy itself. A Framework for Analysis. The politics of memory. Hence, it is based on narrow notions of how discrimination and structural inequalities work and cannot theorize the broader societal processes behind gender inequalities.
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